Funny storey. My concern has more to do with water, electric hook-ups and town laws. If you live on your own land, you need to somehow get electricity and water. Yeah, water barrels for rain catching but what if where you live is dry like Arizona. Do these small homes have AC? you’ll die in one if it doesn’t here in AZ come summer time. As for electric, yeah you could somehow hook-up solar panels. The ease of this isn’t a reality for wither water or electric. Then you have to worry about your town ordinances, or state ordinances. Is it legal to do this? Does the structure have to be on wheels. Everything is so vague. I know if I want to live in one, I’d want easy water access, easy electric access. Now, others hook up in busier areas, like in someone’s yard or driveway, but that isn’t really being off grid or self-sufficient. It’s mooching, being a parasite off someone else’s resources. So which is it? On your own or leased land, trying to figure out where to get the running water and electricity or mooching off someone? The there are the laws that dictate what you can and can’t do with this structure; the structure you bought for the cost of a regular size house. I have been researching this for many years, and no one can tell me exactly how it can be done easily, cheaply, without using someone else’s resources, and not being in the middle of nowhere subsisting in an isolated way so as to not be able to access gas, food, medical needs without a long, gas guzzling drive into civilization. Then there are the safety concerns of break-ins in the middle of nowhere. So while I dream of this romantic and cheaper, nomad, tiny-house lifestyle, I can’t help but think what a royal pain in would be to actually live that experience. Someone really needs to come up with a book that is very candid an realistic about this lifestyle, the problems with it, and how to resolve them EASILY. Please, someone write a Tiny-House Bible on how to EASILY love like this. I’ve yet to read one. It’s always either using someone else’s resources in a backyard, side yard, driveway, or being too isolated, or running into town officials who tell you ya have to move your tiny structure because it’s breaking some law. Or the water electric issue issues in the middle of no where. UGH!